Marc Lamont Hill: On the Record

Commentator and professor Marc Lamont Hill was dropped by CNN after a 2018 UN speech.

On the record

• Nov. 28, 2018 — At a UN event called for “a free Palestine from the river to the sea”; CNN ended his contributor role the next day. [NBC News]

The context

In the same speech Hill said, “No part of this is a call to destroy Israel.” On December 1, he apologized for the confusion, anger, fear, and harm caused by “from the river to the sea,” while explaining that he meant a single binational democratic state rather than Israel’s destruction. [Hill’s first-person op-ed]

Where Galil stands

Our opinion: “From the river to the sea” has a plain meaning to the people it targets. He apologized; we still don’t stand with the words.

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